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Christ alone the way to Heaven, or, Jacob's ladder improved containing four sermons lately…
Christ alone the way to Heaven, or, Jacob's ladder improved containing four sermons lately preached on Genesis XXVIII, XII : wherein the doctrine of free-grace is displayed through Jesus Christ : also discovering the nature, office, and ministration of the holy angels : to which is added one sermon on Rom. 8, 1 : with some short reflections on Mr. Samuel Clark's new book entitled Scripture justification / by Benjamin Keach.Christ alone the way to Heaven, or, Jacob's ladder improved containing four sermons lately preach'd on Genesis XXVIII, XII : wherein the doctrine of free-grace is display'd through Jesus Christ : also discovering the nature, office, and ministration of the holy angels : to which is added one sermon on Rom. 8, 1 : with some short reflections on Mr. Samuel Clark's new book intituled Scripture justification / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by Benja. Harris, 1698
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CHRIST ALONE THE Way to Heaven: OR, JACOB'S LADDER IMPROVED, &c. › Sermon 2 › APPLICATION.
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5. Christ is full, because there is no Bread but in this Garner, no Water of Life for all the World, but in this Well, in this Fountain.
6. Because no Sinner might be discouraged, nor despair of help, succour, and relief in Christ, nor Believers, because they are God's Children, and have his Likeness; — Also;
6. Because no Sinner might be discouraged, nor dispair of help, succour, and relief in Christ, nor Believers, because they are God's Children, and have his Likeness; — Also;
4. This may Reprove such that cast Contempt upon Jesus Christ.1 Some lay quite aside this chief Corner-stone: What do they less, that trust to a sober Moral Life?2 or they that cry up the Light within, as if that was a Ladder that reaches to Heaven, which is to build on the Covenant of Works. Others degrade him, that put part of the highest Glory on the Will of Man; and such who mix their own Faith, sincere Obedience, or Righteousness with Christ's Merits, and make the Gospel as a mere Law of Obedience, with the sanction of Promises and Threatenings, rendering our Faith and Obedience the Condition of our Salvation. This is not to go to Heaven by Jacob's Ladder.
4. This may Reprove such that cast Contempt upon Jesus Christ.1 Some lay quite aside this chief Corner-stone: What do they less, that trust to a sober Moral Life?